Rubben Torella

Rubben Torella is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals since April 2023 and has been with Pfizer since November 2014, holding positions including Associate Research Fellow and Principal Scientist within the CVMET and Neuroscience & Pain Research Units in Cambridge, MA. Torella specializes in computational chemistry, supporting medicinal chemistry teams in designing small molecules through various computational techniques such as docking, molecular dynamics simulations, and quantitative structure-activity relationship analysis. Education includes a Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry from the University of Cambridge (2011-2014) and a Master's and Bachelor's in Biotechnology from Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (2006-2009 and 2003-2006, respectively). Prior experience includes a Research Fellow position at the National Research Council in Milan, Italy, focusing on protein-DNA interactions.